Shane Duffy

Archive for February 2008

Removing all those .svn files

Posted by: Shane Duffy on: February 20, 2008

Im working on a project now and using subversion a lot for the project. One of the things that has been annoying me in the last while is sometimes I want to move code into another svn repository while working on it, and really the only way to do it is to remove all [...]

OS X flush DNS cache

Posted by: Shane Duffy on: February 16, 2008

So this morning I was doing some work with one of my webservers and adding new sub hosts to some of the domains and to see the changes on my MacBook pro laptop I knew I would need to flush the DNS cache so I wouldnt have to wait for the cache to expire.
So for [...]

Time machine backup onto network share.

Posted by: Shane Duffy on: February 14, 2008

The majority of us don’t backup on a regular basis. It usually isn’t until we lose a bunch of critical data that the light bulb turns on and we start backing up for maybe a week or two and then we stop. Apple’s new Leopard operating system contains Time Machine to fix that problem. Time [...]

winFUSE Create Filesystems with .NET support

Posted by: Shane Duffy on: February 9, 2008

Cool little project I found. Check out WinFUSE. Its a fully functional file system running in .NET. And you can write your own with the IFileSystem interface. This could be very cool! Write your own file system with SQL server, Amazon S3 or anything in the back.